# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第一条の二 (Article 1-2) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第一条の二 (Article 1-2) — address `art-1-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-1-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第一条の二 art-1-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-1-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-2 **第一項** 医療は、生命の尊重と個人の尊厳の保持を旨とし、医師、歯科医師、薬剤師、看護師その他の医療の担い手と医療を受ける者との信頼関係に基づき、及び医療を受ける者の心身の状況に応じて行われるとともに、その内容は、単に治療のみならず、疾病の予防のための措置及びリハビリテーションを含む良質かつ適切なものでなければならない。 art-1-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-1-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-2/par-1 Medical care is to be provided in accordance with the physical and mental state of the medical care recipient, based on a relationship of trust between the physician, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, or other medical care professional and the medical care recipient, in a way which respects life and ensures the dignity of the individual, and not only the medical treatment, but including measures to prevent illness and rehabilitation measures must also be of high quality and well-suited. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 医療は、国民自らの健康の保持増進のための努力を基礎として、医療を受ける者の意向を十分に尊重し、病院、診療所、介護老人保健施設、介護医療院、調剤を実施する薬局その他の医療を提供する施設（以下「医療提供施設」という。）、医療を受ける者の居宅等（居宅その他厚生労働省令で定める場所をいう。以下同じ。）において、医療提供施設の機能に応じ効率的に、かつ、福祉サービスその他の関連するサービスとの有機的な連携を図りつつ提供されなければならない。 art-1-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-1-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-2/par-2 Medical care must be provided as a basis for efforts to ensure and improve the health of the nation, fully respecting the wishes of the medical care recipients, and seeking efficiency and organic coordination among associated services such as welfare services, in accordance with the functions of the medical institutions (hereinafter referred to as "medical institutions"), in hospitals, clinics, long-term care health facilities, integrated facilities for medical and long-term care, dispensing pharmacies, and other facilities that provide medical care, and in the homes of medical care recipients (meaning a home and other place specified by an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies hereinafter). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 第一条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-1-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-3/par-1 - 医療法 第一条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/medical-care-act/art-1-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-1-4/par-1 - 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 第六条第一項（医療の担い手等の責務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19